Surprise… It’s me again. I thought I would be out of
character and be the first one to do a blog post the other day to shock Zoo and
here I am again. Like she said, I do produce a lot of cards to send to friends
and family every month. My cards are fun to make and not always as detailed as
Zoo’s but I enjoy sitting down and seeing what will be the finished product of
the relaxing time spent in my craft room. As Zoo has now received the card I
wanted to tell you about next, here it is.
I had some leftover textured wallpaper from renovating our
upstairs bathroom and was playing with my water soluble wax pastels (by Caran
D’ache of Switzerland) and my Stampin’Up! Aqua brush. I love the feel of the wallpaper! It is soft and pliable even after
the pastels were applied, painted with water and dried. I kept the pieces of
painted paper out to mull over what I wanted to do with them until inspiration
finally struck.
I recently purchased a large page of butterfly stencils (one
for me and one for Zoo) with four types of butterflies on it, all about 4”
square in size. They are gorgeous. As the first card was to be for Zoo I chose
the end of the wallpaper that had a lot of peach/pink on it. I used washi tape
to attach the paper directly to the back of the stencil where I wanted it and
then proceeded to cut out all the shapes
carefully, so as not to cut the stencil. It worked very well, though the hands
and elbow barked at me afterward. I saved the bits I cut out and placed them
aside in the correct placement for use on another card.
I found a little scrap piece of textured green paper that
looked good under the butterfly and then mounted it on a complimentary pink
card stock. I mounted the entire top piece onto the card stock using a piece of
fun foam. It gave a uniform thickness and as it turns out, I didn’t have to pay
extra postage. Yay! The idea of using the fun foam came from a YouTube video
Zoo had sent me (sorry but I can’t find it at the moment – maybe Zoo will add
the link later). I liked the uniform thickness for this card but on some cards
I made the other day it didn’t make a difference between that and the double
sided sticky taped dimensional squares I usually use.
The saved bits of the cut out butterfly I glued onto a plain
piece of white card stock. It made a nice subtle card. Here is that one and some
others I made with the remaining big pieces of wall paper. I really liked how
the butterfly shows up so well from across the room. I wasn’t sure what I was
going to use the butterfly stencil for but boy did this turn out nice! Oops.
Forgot to mention that the stencil was made by Craft Décor. Cool... the computer
added the asterisks for me.
Hope you enjoy the butterflies. They made my day!
Red Bear : )
